When Nell Elizabeth Childress was born on 12 August 1876, in Sweetwater, Lewis, Tennessee, United States, her father, David Burton Childress, was 45 and her mother, Mary Speller Jones, was 35. She married Isaac Bart Newton Steely on 30 May 1908, in Lookout Mountain, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Maury, Tennessee, United States in 1880 and Williamsburg, Whitley, Kentucky, United States for about 30 years. She died on 29 March 1953, in Benham, Harlan, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Highland Cemetery, Williamsburg, Whitley, Kentucky, United States.
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Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Historical Boundaries: 1883: Harlan, Kentucky, United States
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
English: metathesized form of Childers . This surname is now rare in Britain.
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